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Authors:
Alex Homer
Srinivasa Sivakumar
Christopher Ambler
S Vaidyaraman
Michael De Marco

ISBN number:
1-861008-39-2
Published:
March 2003
Pages: 280
Price:
US$ 39.99

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IIS6 Programming Handbook

Summary Of Contents

Introduction | 1
Chapter 1: An Overview of IIS 6.0 | 5
Chapter 2: The New Request Architecture | 21
Chapter 3: Security in IIS 6.0 | 53
Chapter 4: The XML Metabase | 77
Chapter 5: Administering IIS 6.0 | 101
Chapter 6: Logging | 161
Chapter 7: ISAPI | 177
Chapter 8: COM and COM+ Services | 209
Appendix A: Support, Errata, and Code Download | 229
Index | 233

Table of Contents

Introduction | 1
What Do You Need? | 2
Book Outline | 2
Chapter 1: An Overview of IIS 6.0 | 5
The Road to IIS 6.0 | 5
What Stands Out - The Highlights | 6
Security | 7
"Locked Down" server | 7
Advanced Digest Authentication | 7
FTP User Isolation | 8
Selectable Worker Process Identity | 8
Secure Sockets Layer | 8
Selectable Cryptographic Service Provider | 8
Reliability | 9
Kernel-mode HTTP listener | 9
Web Administration Service | 10
Health and Crash Monitoring | 10
Idle Timeout | 10
Rapid Fail Protection | 11
Demand Start | 11
Process Recycling | 11
Performance and Scalability | 12
Performance Implications of HTTP.sys | 12
Worker Process Isolation | 12
IIS 5 Isolation Mode | 13
Web Gardens | 13
Asynchronous CGI | 13
ASP Caching | 14
Administration | 14
Command-Line Administration | 14
Logging | 15
Development | 15
Orphan Worker Processes | 15
IIS WMI Provider | 15
ISAPI | 16
Custom Errors | 16
VectorSend | 16
Unicode Support | 16
ExecuteURL | 16
Reporting Unhealthy | 16
Wildcard Application Mappings (Global Interceptors) | 17
New Features | 17
COM+ Services | 17
XML Metabase | 18
IPv6 | 18
Summary | 19
Chapter 2: The New Request Architecture | 21
Request Flow Architecture | 23
Application Isolation Modes | 24
IIS 6.0 Worker Processes Isolation Mode | 25
How Worker Process Isolation Mode works | 25
The Benefits of Worker Process Isolation Mode | 26
IIS 5.0 Isolation Mode | 27
Which Mode? | 28
Switching Between Modes | 29
Architectural Considerations of Worker Process Isolation Mode | 29
State Management | 30
Multi-Instancing | 30
ISAPI Filters | 30
Special considerations for ASP.NET | 31
Application Isolation and Performance | 31
HTTP.sys | 32
Kernel-level Queuing | 33
URI Cache | 33
Quality-of-Service | 34
Bandwidth Throttling | 34
Connection Limits and Timeouts | 35
Application Pool Queue Length Limits | 36
Logging | 37
The Web Administration Service | 37
Application Pools | 38
Application Pool Identity | 41
Demand Start of Application Pools | 42
Application Health Monitoring | 43
Health Detection | 43
Normal operation of an application | 43
When an application crashes | 44
Rapid Fail | 44
Orphan Worker Processes and Debugging | 45
Applications declaring "Unhealthy" | 45
Application Recycling | 45
Idle Process Timeout | 47
Web Gardens | 48
Using Web Gardens | 48
Session State in Web Gardens | 48
Application Pool Parameters in Web Gardens | 48
Processor Affinity | 49
Summary | 50
Chapter 3: Security in IIS 6.0 | 53
An Overview of the Security Process | 54
Install Only What Is Needed | 54
Authenticating Clients | 55
Authorizing Clients | 55
Extension Management | 57
Disabling Unknown and Unneeded Extensions | 57
Enabling New Extensions | 58
Web Site Authentication | 59
Anonymous | 60
Basic | 60
Digest and Advanced Digest | 61
Integrated | 63
Kerberos | 63
Client Certificate | 63
.NET Passport | 64
FTP Site Authentication | 65
Delegated Authentication | 66
Access Control | 66
IP Address Restrictions | 66
Web Directory Security | 66
FTP Directory Security | 67
Virtual Directory Security | 67
URL Authorization | 68
File System Permissions | 69
IIS Built-In Accounts | 69
Cryptography | 70
SSL 3.0 | 70
Certificates | 71
Selectable Cryptographic Service Provider | 71
Configurable Application Pool / Worker Process Identity | 71
HTTP.sys Timeouts and Limits | 73
Monitoring and Maintenance | 73
Security Patches | 73
Monitoring Your System | 74
Summary | 74
Chapter 4: The XML Metabase | 77
Configuration Data Formats | 78
Validating Configuration Files | 78
Plain Text XML Wins | 79
The XML Metabase in IIS | 80
Metabase Backup Files | 80
How IIS 6.0 manages the Metabase | 82
Metabase Compatibility with IIS 5 | 83
The XML Metabase File Format | 83
The Outline Structure of the File | 83
The IIS Web (WWW) Service | 84
Virtual and Web Directories | 86
MIME-Type Mappings | 87
The FTP Service | 89
Access Logging Configuration | 91
General Configuration Objects | 91
Secure Encrypted Properties | 92
Schema Extensibility | 92
Corrupted Metabase Files | 92
Editing the Configuration Data | 93
How the Direct Edit Feature works | 94
Points to Note | 95
Use runas to Gain Administrative Privileges | 95
Disabling History File Creation | 96
History File Security | 96
Summary | 97
Chapter 5: Administering IIS 6.0 | 101
MMC | 102
Command Line Administration | 102
What can we do with the command line? | 102
The Net Command | 104
Managing Web Applications | 105
Querying Web Sites | 105
Starting, Stopping, and Pausing Web Sites | 106
Creating Web Sites | 107
Removing Web Sites | 108
Managing Virtual Directories | 108
Managing FTP Sites | 109
Managing FTP Virtual Directories | 111
Managing IIS Configuration | 111
Configuration Backup with IIS Manager | 112
Backing Up the Complete Server Configuration | 113
Encrypting the Backup File | 114
Restoring the Complete Server Configuration | 114
Deleting Backup Files | 115
Programmatic Configuration Backups | 115
Backing up the Complete Server Configuration | 115
Restoring the Complete Server Configuration | 117
Restarting IIS with IIS Manager | 118
Restarting IIS Programmatically | 118
Importing and Exporting Application Data | 119
Configuration Export and Import with IIS Manager | 119
Saving the Configuration as a file | 119
Restoring the Configuration from a File | 120
Programmatic Configuration Export and Import | 121
Saving the Configuration as a file | 122
Restoring the Configuration from a File | 123
Managing Applications and Web Extensions | 126
Copy Configuration | 128
Save Configuration to Disk | 129
Programmatic Administration | 129
Using WMI | 130
Why WMI? | 130
Basic Objects | 131
Using ADSI | 139
Remote Administration | 144
IIS MMC | 144
Using Telnet | 145
Windows Terminal Services | 145
Web-Based Remote Administration | 146
Configuring Quality of Service | 147
Limiting Connections & Bandwidth Throttling | 148
Configuring Application Pool Length | 152
Configuring Keep-Alive and Connection Timeout | 153
Configuring Compression Settings | 155
Summary | 158
Chapter 6: Logging | 161
Types of Logging | 162
W3C Extended, NCSA, and IIS formats | 163
W3C Extended | 163
NCSA | 166
IIS | 167
ODBC Logging | 168
Custom Logging | 170
Centralized Binary Logging | 170
UTF-8 Logging | 171
Remote Logging | 171
Selecting the Right Format | 171
Using the Logs | 172
Using HTTP Substatus Codes | 172
Determining Security Problems | 172
Analyzing Usage and Trends | 173
Detecting Site Problems | 173
Security of Log Files | 174
Summary | 174
Chapter 7: ISAPI | 177
Former ISAPI Models | 178
IIS 4.0 | 179
IIS 5.0 | 180
IIS 6.0 | 180
New ISAPI Features | 182
Unicode ISAPI | 182
New ISAPI Extension Features | 183
Unicode Server Support Functions | 183
Unicode Server Side Variables | 184
GetServerVariable Server Support Function | 184
ExecuteURL | 185
ExecuteUrlStatus | 186
Global Interceptors/Wildcard Application Mappings | 186
Replacing Read Raw Data Filters | 187
ServerSupportFunction | 187
Server Support Function Parameter Changes | 188
VectorSend | 188
SendCustomError | 188
RequestReportUnhealthy | 189
New ISAPI Filter Features | 189
FilterEnableCache | 189
Filter Load/ Unload Order | 190
AddResponseHeader Changes | 190
HTTP Error 400 Requests | 190
ReadRawData Notifications | 190
ISAPI and Security | 190
ISAPI Extensions Disabled by Default | 190
Process Identity | 191
Obtaining the Impersonation Token | 191
Verifying Component Permissions | 192
Developing ISAPI Extensions and Filters | 193
Developing Extensions | 193
Extension Processing | 193
ISAPI Extension Entry Points | 193
ISAPI Extension Callbacks | 196
Filters | 197
Fault Tolerance/Scalability Issues | 198
Filter Processing | 198
ISAPI Filter Entry Points | 198
ISAPI Filter Callbacks | 200
Callback Functions | 200
Debugging ISAPI Extensions and Filters | 202
Summary | 207
Chapter 8: COM and COM+ Services | 209
Threading | 209
Single Threaded Model | 210
Single Threaded Apartment Model | 210
Free Threaded Model | 210
Both | 211
Apartment Neutral Model | 211
Apartment Model Selection | 213
COM+ Partitions | 214
Local Partitions | 216
Partition Sets | 217
Mapping Users / Groups to Partition Sets | 218
Registering Components in Partitions | 218
Enabling COM+ Partitions in IIS 6 | 218
Tracker | 219
Fusion | 221
Introduction of Side-by-Side DLLs | 221
Windows File Protection | 222
Side-by-Side Assemblies | 222
Enabling SxS Assemblies using IIS Manager | 223
Side-By-Side Support | 225
Windows Server 2003, ASP.NET and IIS 6.0 | 226
Summary | 227
Appendix A: Support, Errata, and Code Download | 229
How to Download the Sample Code for the Book | 229
Errata | 230
E-Mail Support | 230
p2p.wrox.com | 231
Index | 233

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